Taipei。台北

the less than fluid project

This is an international architecture project from Portland State University. The project incorporates two different perspectives of Taipei City.

From the perspective of The Student, who was born and raised in Taipei; and after being away from Taipei for nearly seven years, she has finally come back to the city. She is re-introduced to the city, through researching, looking, listening, walking, and experiencing.

There is also the Professor's point of view. The Professor has never been to Taipei, he is being introduced to Taipei for the first time. Through images, sounds, and poetry; The Professor will make out his own unique imagination and vision of Taipei.

FOR MORE DETAILS ON THE PROJECT, GO TO THE LABEL 'SYLLABUS' ON THE RIGHT---------------------->

Saturday, October 4, 2008

7 Seconds Of Memory

在陳綺貞的online journal上讀到這個 讓我開始想魚跟台北人的相同性:

"聽說 魚的記憶只有7秒

聽到這個說法時
還頗有種恍然大悟的感覺

難怪
那麼小的魚缸裡
魚也不會像關在籠子裡的老鼠
可憐不斷焦躁的兜圈

還是緩慢
看似悠哉的游著
很快就忘記剛剛游過身邊
打過幾百次招呼的同伴
或是很快就忘記一些很殘忍的事情...

可是我也喜歡魚
那種你永遠無法理解
陌然又和平的相處
擦身過後永遠的互相忘懷
神祕又令人敬畏

前一陣子逛水族館
我就深深愛上那個

只有未來
沒有過去的緩慢之地"





So I read this on one of my favorite singer's online journal. And I start thinking about Taipei people:

"I heard that fish's memory only last for 7 seconds.
When I first heard that I felt like I finally got some of the questions I had answered.

No wonder fishes don't get cranky like hamsters in a tiny cage. Even if the fish bawl is really small.
Fishes still swim unhurriedly. Seemingly unworried of anything.
Instantly forgetting other fishes that just swam by, saying hello to each other for the hundredth time.
Or quickly forget all the cruelty in the world...

I like fishes.
I like the type of communication between them, that is distant yet peaceful.
Something we never fully understood
Going pass each other and yet forever missing each other
The concept is mysterious and admirable at the same time

Went to an aquarium a while ago
I fell in love with that place--
A sedated space with only future but no past."





Fish swim through water with no concept of time [past]
People swim through humidity with no concept of time [future]




Fishes swim in a group, in a group
People travel in a cluster, in a cluster
They consume in a wave, in a wave

The non-existed past allow time to extent further -----extent further----------
The short-lived future were pushed back, pushed back
The examiner's eyes leaks and percolate .......leaks and percolate

魚 一群一群的游
台北人 一團一團的走
他們 一陣一陣的消耗
沒有的過去 讓時間向前一直延伸----- 一直延伸-----------
短暫的未來 向後推 向後推
觀察者的眼睛 漫漫的滲透 漫漫的滲透

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